Month: March 2007

Collection pages

In case you read this blog only through the RSS feeds, you might not have noticed the few new pages on the left hand menu bar. Those pages are dynamically generated by pulling the RSS feed of my del.icio.us bookmarks for specific tag combinations (like wordpress+plugin+must).

Feel free to have a look from time to time, to check for modifications !

For now, you’ll find :

And in case you wonder, those pages are generated thanks to the wonderful inlineRSS wordpress plugin, which makes pulling RSS feeds from your blog damn easy.

WordPress and AdSense: Getting money from your WordPress blog

WordPress is a great blogging platform, which will let you easily publish your blog. Now, considering the amount of time you’ll probably spend writing contents, you might want to get money from it (all work deserves money, right ? 😉 ).

I’ll show you how to do this easily, by using the advertisement program of Google : AdSense.
Continue reading WordPress and AdSense: Getting money from your WordPress blog

Scripting Twitter with Perl + LWP

A little follow up on yesterday article about scripting Twitter with cURL: the solution was working, but somehow inconvenient. Not practical to have to go and fetch the user id every time you want to send a direct message !

This time, I scripted Twitter direct message with Perl and LWP (libwww-perl), for a much more convenient solution. I designed it to be used like a sort of universal paging service.

Continue reading Scripting Twitter with Perl + LWP

Scripting Twitter with cURL

Twitter already provides an API but it is currently very limited. It will let you fairly easily change your status, but won’t let you send a direct message.

Comes in cURL. cURL is a very versatile command line utility which is designed to script web pages interactions. As a little demo, I’ll show you how to use it to easily overcome the shortcomings of Twitter’s API.

Continue reading Scripting Twitter with cURL

Twitter : Send free SMS messages to your friends

If you don’t know yet about Twitter, you might want to have a look at my previous article about it.
One of its neat features is the (previously written about) ability to send direct messages to your friends.

This feature will let you easily send free SMS from your computer to any of your friends. Continue reading Twitter : Send free SMS messages to your friends

Multicast : Listing group memberships

Windows XP

To see multicast group memberships in Windows XP, you can use netsh :

U:>netsh interface ip show joins
Interface Addr   Multicast Group
---------------  ---------------
192.168.139.1    224.0.0.1
192.168.137.1    224.0.0.1
192.168.136.1    224.0.0.1

Solaris (and probably other Unixen as well)

In Solaris, the netstat command can be used :

$ netstat -g
Group Memberships: IPv4
Interface Group                RefCnt
--------- -------------------- ------
lo0       224.0.0.1                 1
eri0      224.0.0.1                 1
$

Twitter : Unified messaging interface

The Several Habits of Wildly Successful Twitter Users » Slacker Manager
If you just want to send a note directly to someone, you can get them via the direct messages web interface.

Damn ! I’m a twitter user myself, but how could I have overlooked that “direct message” feature ? Now you can think of twitter as a unified messaging interface. If the personne you’re sending a message didn’t configure anything then the message will wait to be read on the website. If she configured IM and cell phone, then she’ll get it on the IM when online, on the cell phone when not. Pretty cool !

The rest of the quoted article is worth to be read !

My old post about twitter

Take typing lessons with Firefox

OK, it’s friday so we can have a little fun 😉

“Addictive Typing Lessons” is a Firefox extension which helps you to practice and improve your keyboard typing skills.

It provides many different sets of exercise with growing difficulty, and collects statistics about your performance, so that you can see how you progress.

If you’re not familiar with keyboard typing, give it a try and you’ll soon type like a professional 🙂